Michael Marmot

Sir Michael Marmot is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Director-General, on social determinants of health; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-), and co-Director of their Institute of Health Equity. He has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. Sir Michael chaired the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, and chaired the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, producing the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008.  He conducted the British Government’s Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO EURO in 2014, and in 2020 Health Equity in England: Marmot Review 10 Years On, and Build Back Fairer: the COVID-19 Marmot Review.